Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. James Edward ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, 91, grand and cheery old man of U.S. thoroughbred racing; of heart disease; in Miami. A stableboy at ten, then a so-so jockey on half-mile outlaw tracks, Mr. Fitz hit his stride by the mid-'20s when he became head trainer at Bel air Stud Farm and the Wheatley Stable, then over the years saddled such greats as Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from...
Gibson's coaching is gradually molding some strong units from the good material on the team. The decisive question in the team's future is when the individual skiers will hit their stride...
...unassuming motto of the Corps of Engineers is Essayons (Let's try)-an injunction they heeded with distinction in the tropics of the South Pacific and the frozen hills of Korea. Now they are learning to take the sands and swamps of South Viet Nam in stride. As an instructor at Fort Belvoir put it last week: "A bridge is a bridge wherever you build it. If you can build it one place, you can build it another...
Last week, out of a cast again but still wearing a brace, Larsen could move his foot and walk with only a moderate hitch in his stride. He insists that he will soon be playing tennis again. As to why there had been no prompt report of the surgical feat, Dr. Byers says: "In 1962, I didn't know that it hadn't been done before, and the job wasn't complete until the patient could move his toes...
...room couch at lift-off and was still jumping up and down an hour later. Marilyn Lovell, expecting her fourth child soon, was also in high spirits. "I'm just stopping by on my way to the hospital," she joked. Jo Schirra tried to take the excitement in stride, sent her two children to school after Gemini 6's blastoff. But the following morning, when Schirra stepped aboard the Wasp, Jo Schirra admitted that she had found "every bit" of the mission exciting. The flawless recovery, she said, was "even more than I expected...